Deck 13: Epilogue: Looking Backward, Looking Forward

Question 1

Making time to think about issues raised in this book is part of developing your voice.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Agenda-setting is an important way to influence cultural views of gender.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Agenda-setting

Answer 3

Shaping the public agenda through such fields as journalism,popular music,and PR or by blogging,and engaging in social media.

Question 4

"Salad bowl" metaphor

Question 5

Your Gendered Lives textbook states that the forms of influence you have on cultural views of gender include

A) individual choice, policy change, and political movements.
B) traitorous identity, teaching children, and empowering others.
C) addressing backlash, profeminist movements, and feminist movements.
D) direct power, agenda setting, and voice.
E) participating in backlash, personal choice, and agenda setting.

Question 6

Which of the following statements about difference does your book support?

A) Difference causes strife in organizations.
B) We should seek to minimize differences and emphasize commonalities.
C) Diversity already exists, and it can be a tool to enrich relationships and organizations.
D) Diversity is declining in the United States.
E) The melting pot is the best metaphor to describe difference in the United States.

Question 7

Voice

Question 8

Which of the following is true of relationships between individuals and cultural views of gender?

A) Individuals may reinforce cultural views of gender.
B) Individuals may embody cultural views of gender.
C) Individuals may remake cultural views of gender.
D) Individuals may challenge cultural views of gender.
E) All of the above.

Question 9

The current generation will have very little opportunity to enact change concerning gender.

Question 10

Differences are valuable and desirable.

Question 11

Direct power

Question 12

Which of the following are metaphors that seek to recognize diversity in the United States without obscuring difference?

A) a melting pot
B) a cake mix
C) a Venn diagram
D) a quilt
E) all of the above

Question 13

Which of the following is true about taking voice and enacting change?

A) Change comes primarily through the use of direct power - making people do what they would not do on their own.
B) The only people with the ability to engage in agenda setting have formal power, such as newspaper editors and television producers.
C) Taking voice and enacting change are processes.
D) The responsibility for taking voice and enacting change around gender norms rests primarily with men.
E) The responsibility for taking voice and enacting change around gender norms rests primarily with women.